Journal 24: Compare/Contrast Cats

     Both Doraemon and Hello Kitty are from Japan. They are famous cartoons in Taiwan. I still remembered that I watched Doraemon’s cartoon on television almost everyday during dinner time. Each time after I watched the cartoon, I always told my mother that wanted to have a Doraemon in my life too. Doraemon and Hello Kitty share some similarities. For example, they lose some parts of their appearances. Doraemon misses his ears on his head; Hello Kitty misses her mouth on her face. Both of them don’t have fingers and toes. On the other hand, they do have some differences between each other. Doraemon only has one sibling-his younger sister; Hello Kitty has a group of family members. In cartoons, Doraemon’s mission is to help and take care of his owner. Hello Kitty doesn’t have any mission in the cartoon. I think that Doraemon’s and Hello Kitty’s personalities are totally different. To me, Doraemon symbolizes a critical thinker; Hello Kitty symbolizes a naive person. Both of them play important roles in children’s memories. Compare the audience of these two characters, most fans of Hello Kitty are girls because it is pink and romantic. However, the audience of Doraemon can be both children and adults.

 

Journal 23: Pearl Harbor Day

     The day Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor was after the start of Second World War. At the beginning, the United States’ government stayed neutral that it didn’t want to join the war. Japanese planned to attack Pearl Harbor because they didn’t want the United States to gain resources from the territories of United Kingdom, and Netherlands. That was why Japanese decided to attack the harbor. Personally, I thought that Japanese shouldn’t make this decision because this action directly led Americans into the war. According to the result, Japanese didn’t get a good consequence. President Franklin D. Roosevelt claimed that December 7 was “a day which will live in infamy.” Japanese’s attack also was the cause of the United States to enter World War II. The effect of Pearl Harbor of Taiwan was that the United States and Taiwan signed the “Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty” on December 2, 1954. The treaty consisted of ten main articles that included the provision that if one country came under attack, the other would aid and provide military support. During this time, Taiwan was protected by the United States. I thought that this attack was very significant to Japanese even until now. If the attack was not happened, Taiwan might not have chance to sign the treaty with the United States though it didn’t exist anymore.

 

Journal 22: Telling Your Story

     I am willing to share my story to other people, but I also worry whether I make each plot clearly enough or not. I think that I am not a good writer because I don’t know how to elaborate the story more vividly. Therefore, I am afraid to tell my own story in front of public. I do have experience to tell story to other people before. The audience was my younger cousins. They usually pick a storybook and ask me to tell the story for them when we met. I am able to use different voices and tones because I feel no pressure to tell story to my cousins. Sometimes, I can even act vividly in order to let them understand the story. However, the situation is different when classmates are my audience. I might feel pressure coming toward me. On the other words, I don’t feel confident about my story because there might be some mistakes or unclear parts. The story is made by me, so I definitely know the whole story. Not all people understand the details of story as I do. Everyone has different point of view. I think that it is a god way to share my story to other people in order to find the mistakes.